Quick Definition
to mourn
Strong's Definition
properly, to tear the hair and beat the breasts (as Orientals do in grief); generally to lament; by implication, to wail
Derivation: a primitive root;
KJV Usage: lament, mourn(-er), wail.
TWOT Reference: 1530
Outline of Biblical Usage
Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents
This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
סָפַד (sa.phad) — to mourn. 1) to wail, lament, mourn 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to wail, lament 1a2) wailers (participle) 1b) (Niphal) to be lamented, be bewailed
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · מִסְפֵּד
Grieve | verb qal, verb nif | ≈ אֵבֶל · בכה · ילל | ≠ רקד · שׂחק
to mourn = action by which human perform the mourning ritual for someone who has died, or for another tragic event; this may include wailing, tearing one's clothes, putting on sackcloth, covering oneself with dust or ashes, fasting or eating specific food, cutting oneself, shaving one's head, covering part of one's face, etc.; this usually takes place during a specific period of time and ends after the burial has taken place, but it may also be repeated in later days to commemorate a tragic event
GEN 23:2 · GEN 50:10 · 1SA 25:1 · 1SA 28:3 · 2SA 1:12 · 2SA 3:31 · 2SA 11:26 · 1KI 13:29 · 1KI 13:30 · 1KI 14:13 · 1KI 14:18 · ECC 3:4 · ECC 12:5 · ISA 32:12 · JER 4:8 · JER 16:4 · JER 16:5 · JER 16:6 · JER 22:18 · JER 22:18 · JER 25:33 · JER 34:5 · JER 49:3 · EZK 24:16 · EZK 24:23 · JOL 1:13 · MIC 1:8 · ZEC 7:5 · ZEC 12:10 · ZEC 12:12
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[סָפַד] vb. wail, lament Qal wail, lament
Niph. they shall not be bewailed
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